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The time mentioned by him of her resorting to the fort, "of the age then of eleven or twelve yeares," must have been the time referred to by Smith when he might have married her, namely, in 1608-9, when he calls her "not past 13 or 14 years of age."
The time mentioned by him of her resorting to the fort, "of the age then of eleven or twelve yeares," must have been the time referred to by Smith when he might have married her, namely, in 1608-9, when he calls her "not past 13 or 14 years of age."
The time mentioned by him of her resorting to the fort, "of the age then of eleven or twelve yeares," must have been the time referred to by Smith when he might have married her, namely, in 1608-9, when he calls her "not past 13 or 14 years of age."
All that we know certainly about his taking service with the Dutch Company is told in a letter from President Jeannin the French envoy who was engaged in the years 1608-9, with representatives of other nations, in trying to patch up a truce or a peace between the Netherlands and Spain to his master, Henry IV. Along with his open instructions, Jeannin seems to have had private instructions in keeping with the customs and principles of the time to do what he could do in the way of stealing from Holland for the benefit of France a share of the East India trade.
We shall therefore gain more by considering them in connexion with each other than we shall lose by abandoning strict chronological sequence. When Fletcher's play was produced, probably in the winter of 1608-9, it proved a complete failure. An edition appeared without date, but before May, 1610, to which were prefixed verses by Field, Beaumont, Chapman, and Jonson.
He arrived at the island on the 17th of July, twenty-three days out from Thursday Island. The Keeling Cocos Islands, according to Admiral Fitzroy, R. N., lie between the latitudes of 11 degrees 50' and 12 degrees 12' S., and the longitudes of 96 degrees 51' and 96 degrees 58' E. They were discovered in 1608-9 by Captain William Keeling, then in the service of the East India Company.
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